More Than 30 Top U.S. Officials Guilty of War Crimes

More Than 30 Top U.S. Officials Guilty of War
Crimes, Boyle Says

More than 30
top U.S. officials, including presidents G.W. Bush and
Obama, are guilty of war crimes or crimes against peace and
humanity “legally akin to those perpetrated by the former
Nazi regime in Germany,” the distinguished American
international law authority Francis Boyle charges.U.S.
officials involved in an “ongoing criminal conspiracy”
in the Middle East and Africa who either participated in the
commission of the crimes under their jurisdiction or failed
to take action against them included both presidents since
2001 and their vice-presidents, the secretaries of State and
Defense, the directors of the CIA and National Intelligence
and the Pentagon’s Joint Chiefs of Staff and heads of the
Central Command, among others, Boyle said.“In
international legal terms, the U.S. government itself should
now be viewed as constituting an ongoing criminal conspiracy
under international law,” Boyle said in an address Dec.
9th to the Puerto Rican Summit Conference on Human Rights at
the University of the Sacred Heart in San Juan. Boyle is a
Professor of International Law at the University of
Illinois, Champaign, and the author of numerous books on the
subject.
Besides the presidents, Boyle identified as war
criminals Vice Presidents Dick Cheney and Joseph Biden;
Secretaries of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Robert Gates and
Leon Panetta; Secretaries of State Colin Powell, Condoleeza
Rice, and Hillary Clinton; National Security Advisors
Stephen Hadley, James Jones, and Thomas Donilon; Director of
National Intelligence John Negroponte and James Clapper and
Central Intelligence Agency(CIA) Directors George Tenet,
Leon Panetta, and David Petraeus.In the Pentagon, war
criminals include the members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
and some Regional Commanders-in-Chiefs, especially for the
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), and more recently, AFRICOM.
Besides Chairman General Martin Dempsey, U.S. Army, JCS
members include Admiral James Winnefeld Jr.; General Raymond
Odierno, Chief of Staff of the Army; General James Amos,
Commandant of the Marine Corps; Admiral Jonathan Greenert,
Chief of Naval Operations; and General Mark Welsh, Chief of
Staff of the Air Force.Those who have headed the Central
Command since the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan include Lt.
General Martin Dempsey; Admiral William Fallon; General John
Abizaid; General Tommy Franks; Lt. General John Allen; and
current commander General James Mattis. General Carter Ham
of AFRICOM bears like responsibility.Boyle told the
Puerto Rican conference that President G.W. Bush had
shamelessly exploited the 9/11 tragedy and “set forth to
steal a hydrocarbon empire from the Muslim states and
peoples living in Central Asia and the Middle East and
Africa under “bogus pretexts.” These pretexts included
fighting a war against “international terrorism” or
“Islamic fundamentalism”, eliminating weapons of mass
destruction, the promotion of democracy, and humanitarian
intervention, Boyle said.The serial aggressions of the
U.S.violate such basic documents of international law as the
Nuremberg Charter, the Nuremberg Judgment, and the Nuremberg
Principles, Boyle said. As well, they violate the
Pentagon’s own U.S. Army Field Manual 27-10 on The Law
of Land Warfare, which applies to the President himself
as Commander-in-Chief of U.S. Armed Forces under Article II,
Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution.U.S. administrations
since 9/11 may be charged with “crimes against peace”
for their attacks in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya,
Somalia,Yemen, and Syria, “and perhaps their longstanding
threatened war of aggression against Iran,” Boyle
said.The eminent international authority went on to
charge that the war crimes included “torture, enforced
disappearances, assassinations, murders, kidnappings,
extraordinary renditions, ‘shock and awe’ (bombings),
and (the use of) depleted uranium, white phosphorus, cluster
bombs, drone strikes,” and the like.Boyle said
Americans “must not permit any aspect of their foreign
affairs and defense policies to be conducted by acknowledged
‘war criminals’” but must insist upon “the
impeachment, dismissal, resignation, indictment, conviction,
and long-term incarceration of all U.S. government officials
guilty of such heinous international and domestic
crimes.”Boyle said the so-called “targeted killing”
of human beings in a non-battlefield situation is "pure
murder" under basic principles of Anglo-American common law
and international criminal law. And in this case, where
these murders are both widespread and systematic, these
murders constitute a Crime against Humanity under Article
7(1)(a) of the Rome Statute for the International Criminal
Court. Although the United States is not a party to the
Rome Statute, Boyle said, "nevertheless President Obama is
subject to the jurisdiction of the ICC and its Prosecutor
for murdering people in ICC member
States.”

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Sherwood Ross is an American public relations
consultant who works for good causes. He formerly worked for
major dailies and wire services as a reporter and
columnist.

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